China in seven banquets: a flavourful history

Introduction : what is food history?

Of meat and morality : the eight treasures of Zhou

By silk road and high sea : new foods come to China

Gardens of delight : imperial China's high cuisine

Fancy foods and foreign fads : China eats the world

'Life's a banquet' : food culture in the go-go '90s

Franchise fever : the price of efficiency

And beyond